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Another day dawns in the urban sprawl of El Alto, one of the poorest cities in Bolivia, and 4,100 metres above sea level. The cold air and exhaust fumes mingle with the smell of food sold by street vendors gently rousing the city's 700,000 inhabitants out of sleep. The city of El Alto, outside Bolivia's capital La Paz, is home to some one million people who live at oppressively high altitudes. And many of them no longer have reliable access to water. Because of melting glaciers in the Andes...
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